Category Archives: Projects

Always On, Always Connected, Jonathan Sparks, Projects, Shawn Van Every

Vibraille

Jonathan Sparks

Mobile app that translates braille into vibrations.

http://jonathansparks.com/vibraille.html

Description

Vibraille is a mobile application that translates letters from text messages into their corresponding braille pattern represented in a 2×3 grid.For each letter, users scan the screen with their finger triggering vibration when over a cell that contains a braille bump, giving them a quick mental image of the current character. Using this kind of haptic feedback would allow those with visual impairments an alternative to the a speech only interface with mobile phones.

Classes

Always On, Always Connected

Alina Balean, Antonius Wiriadjaja, Danqing Wang, Gladys Chan, Kelly Saxton, Kina Smith, Making Pop-Up Books and Paper Engineering, Projects, Rucha Patwardhan, Sam Ita, Sharon De La Cruz, Talking Fabrics, Uttam Grandhi

Talking Fabrics, Popping Paper

Kelly Saxton, Gladys Chan, Uttam Grandhi, Danqing Wang, Rucha Patwardhan, Sharon De La Cruz, Kina Smith, Alina Balean

Talking Fabrics, Popping Paper is a group showcase from students working beyond the craft tradition, using paper and fabrics in curious ways to tell their stories.

Description

Talking Fabrics, Popping Paper is a sample of work from students who took Talking Fabrics and/or Paper Pop-ups this semester. The display will be three shelves: one shelf of white mockups from pop-ups, one shelf of full color final projects from pop-ups, and one shelf of smaller works from Talking Fabrics. Ideally these shelves are located in a corner, and are wall mounted for a gallery-style presentation, but a mobile shelf unit is possible. The pop-up books that can be handled will be low enough for people to browse through them. Currently nine different students have offered work, and works are fairly small, so each shelf would be approximately 36″ long x 12″ deep. Paper works shown will include a model of the Burj Kalifa, instructions on how to get an elephant into a refrigerator, a short tale about the tuna fishing industry, and a pop-up glowing fungus lamp, among others. The soft lab based work will include hand-spun wool work, a ball gown for a water balloon, and a couture hood made from fabric printed in traditional African patterns, among other things. Works will be curated and installed by Kelly Saxton.

Classes

Making Pop-Up Books and Paper Engineering, Talking Fabrics

Connected Devices and Networked Interaction, Eojin Chae, Jess Jiyoung Jung, Jihyun Lee, Liz Khoo, Projects, Tom Igoe

Go Get It

Jihyun Lee, Jess Jiyoung Jung, Liz Khoo, Eojin Chae

A connected motivation box that can be unlocked when a user achieves a given fitness goal

http://github.com/jihyunlee/ggit

Description

GGIT is a safety box for motivation. A user can access to the box with bluetooth 4.0 networked mobile app, put a treat in the box, set a fitness goal and lock it. Only when given goal is fulfilled, the box is unlocked and the treat can be rewarded. Fitness activity is measured by phone device accelerometer. This project is specifically using M7 processor data from iphone 5S, which is a promising technology to make a iphone a quantified self device.

Classes

Connected Devices and Networked Interaction

Brooke Singer, Erika Maher, Kathleen Wilson, Marina Zurkow, Projects, Soil as Medium: Engaging the Urban Commons from the Ground Up, The Fungus Among Us, Thesis

Soil for the Air

Erika Hansen Miller

Soil for the Air is a platform for a crowd-sourced research project on soil biology, fungus, and climate change.

http://www.soilfortheair.org/

Description

Soil for the Air is a physical and digital platform for a crowd-sourced research project on soil biology, carbon-sequestering fungi, and climate change. The aim of Soil for the Air is to use the power of the crowd and the enthusiasm of citizen scientists to rally around an important cause – climate change mitigation – and to break down the wall between institutionalized science and the general public. In the process, the project hopes to make an important discovery about using agricultural soils to remove carbon from the air and store it below ground in healthy soils.

Classes

The Fungus Among Us, Soil as Medium: Engaging the Urban Commons from the Ground Up, Thesis

Heather Greer, Pia Zaragoza, Projects, Thesis

White Box Communications

Pia Zaragoza

White Box Emergency Communications is a radio-based emergency communications system that is accessible, affordable, and easy to use that can be deployed when modern communication methods are down during a disaster.

www.pzaragoza.net/whitebox

Description

Modern communication methods rely heavily on cell phone towers and internet connections, which, during disasters are either offline or reserved for emergency response and disaster management. How can survivors communicate their location and get the supplies they need? White Box Emergency Communications aims to solve this problem by repurposing an existing protocol, automatic packet reporting system (APRS), developed by the amateur radio community for emergency communications. By making APRS more accessible, affordable, and easy to use, it allows responders to see status updates, view GPS coordinates, and communicate independently with survivors via this long-established wireless technology.

Classes

Thesis

Live Image Processing and Performance, Luke DuBois, Projects, Qingyuan Chen, Xinyi Deng

Sing Into City

Xinyi Deng, Qingyuan Chen

Want to know how the city looks like in your voice? Come and check!

http://www.dforxinyi.com/blog/2014/05/16/sing-into-city/

Description

It is our project for Live Image Processing and Performing class. We use Max/MSP to track the parameters of the sound and draw skylines according to these parameters. The higher frequency of the sound is, for example, the taller building user could draw and see. After saying something or singing a song, user will get a beautiful piece of paper which has several buildings on it, in other words, the skyline of your voice.

Classes

Live Image Processing and Performance

Dana Reginiano, Jared Schiffman, Projects, Spatial Media, Tessa Ndiaye

Chime.In

Dana Reginiano, Tessa Ndiaye

Why would you buy a concert ticket? Who, What, When, Where, How much. Chime.In provides a seamless access to related information, and thus facilitate the consumer decision making process.

http://tessandiaye.com/2014/05/05/bebop/

Description

New York has a vibrant music scene. Concerts are happening every single day, all over town. Unfortunately, it is not always easy to be aware of what is going, how it sounds, how much it costs, and when and where it is happening.

Be*Bop is a sound installation. A map of New York with glowing dots is projected on white latex. These glowing dots are inviting the user to interact with the piece. Each time a dot is pressed, a different song starts playing. Each one of them represents concerts at a certain date. While the music is still playing, the projection promptly reveals the concert ID, showing the user where the artist is playing, the name of the venue and how much is the ticket.

Classes

Spatial Media

Governing Dynamics of Software: The Design and Implementation of Programming Languages, Jiaying Peng, Projects, Ramsey Nasser

Ridiculous Programming

Jiaying Peng

yeah this is ridiculous

http://itp.karenbeta.com/?p=276

Description

Imagine your drawing can also become your instructions for coding! Use your free hand drawing to control the behavior of certain shapes on the screen. Your drawings? Your thoughts!

Classes

Governing Dynamics of Software: The Design and Implementation of Programming Languages

Daniel Shiffman, Dimelsa Medina, Pedro Galvao Cesar de Oliveira, Projects, The Nature of Code

dot.fluid

Dimelsa Medina, Pedro Galvao Cesar de Oliveira

Reactive/Fluid/Tangible Interface that enhance the music, nature and human experience

http://onemorepixel.cc/content/proposal.pdf

Description

THE SOUND VISUALIZER is a Fluid/Tangible Interface that enhances the music, nature and human experience . Working with the interaction of physical interface, sound, and digital dynamic particles we try to accomplish an experience that revolves around the man-made (technology) and nature. The goal of this project is to develop an audiovisual interface in which the user will have real time feedback and a customized experience.

Classes

The Nature of Code

Aankit Patel, Daniel Shiffman, Jen Lowe, Math for Artists, Projects, The Nature of Code, Ziv Schneider

Face Planet

Ziv Schneider, Aankit Patel

Educating the public about how global ocean currents impact climate and climate change.

http://ziv.bz/?p=1544

Description

Professor Dave Holland's lab, part of the Center for Atmosphere Ocean Science at NYU, is the site of a massive fluid dynamics simulator that he and his colleagues uses to study the effects of climate change on ocean water temperature among other things. The work is done as part of a network of scientists around the world studying different aspects of climate change and, given the increasing pace of climate change, is increasingly important to make transparent to the public. Luckily, Dr. Holland's lab is at street-level and surrounded by windows, making it one of the most accessible labs at NYU.

As ITP students we believe we have the range of skills to help bridge the gap between the science on the inside and the people passing by the windows wondering “What is going on there?”. Our foremost interest is to get passers-by to stop for 20-30 seconds (as they might in front a piece of art in a museum) and engage with the Dr. Holland's work.

We plan to build a simple interactive installation allowing users to understand the importance of ocean water temperature changes to climate science. Given how complex and opaque climate science is and must be, it is important to us to design an experience that builds fundamental blocks of understanding, complementing the science.

Classes

Math for Artists, The Nature of Code